Quotes about Compassion
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
— Henry David Thoreau
It often happens that a human is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
— Henry David Thoreau
I would not subtract anything from the praise that is due to philanthropy but merely demand justice for all who by their lives and works are a blessing to mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
I need thy hate as much as thy love.
— Henry David Thoreau
what might have been had this family chosen to model forgiveness for their daughters rather than bitterness.
— Henry Blackaby
Ask God to make you like Christ so that, even when you are being persecuted, you can pray, "Father, forgive them.
— Henry Blackaby
Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men.
— Herman Melville
But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.
— Herman Melville
see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
— Herman Melville
Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
— Herman Melville
see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
— Herman Melville